Railroads of the North Woods
Author | : Everett L. Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Logging railroads |
ISBN | : 9781890454197 |
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Author | : Everett L. Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Logging railroads |
ISBN | : 9781890454197 |
Author | : Richard Sanders Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : Logging railroads |
ISBN | : 9780925168696 |
This is the story of several typical New York State shortlines, reprinted and updated from the 1978 edition. The life of a shortline railroad is precarious. A line paying handsome dividends one day can be out of business the next if its prize customer closes up shop. Of the railroads in this history, only one remains today-the Lowville and Beaver River Railroad. This book is a joint effort by Keith Maloney, William Gove, Richard Allen, and Richard Palmer, all of whom devoted many hours in extensive research. Great railroad book-great Adirondack book!
Author | : Richard Sanders Allen |
Publisher | : North Country Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780932052162 |
Author | : John T. Labbe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Logging railroads |
ISBN | : |
"In the early days of lumbering, the railroads went where the timber was - right up to the "spar tree" at the head of cutting operations - and locomotives performed many of the chores formerly handled by horses and oxen. To reach the timber, railroads had to climb nearly unsurmountable grades (some in excess of 70%), cross nearly impossible ravines on improvised timber trestles hundreds of feet high, yet be so flexibly constructed that trackage could be shifted constantly to "follow the timber." Operations of such lines required special types of equipment, many of which were improvised right at the camps, plus a special breed of men. They came out of the deep woods of the Northwest, of Michigan, of Wisconsin and even the Scandinavian countries, to write a thrilling chapter in the history of the iron horse." --From inside of jacket
Author | : Eileen M. McMahon |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299234231 |
The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area’s first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands were transformed by fur trade empires and the loggers who called it the “river of pine.” A patchwork of farms, cultivated by immigrants from many countries, followed the cutover forests. Today, the St. Croix River Valley is a tourist haven in the land of sky-blue waters and a peaceful escape for residents of the bustling Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan region. North Woods River is a thoughtful biography of the river over the course of more than three hundred years. Eileen McMahon and Theodore Karamanski track the river’s social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. The history of the St. Croix revealed here offers larger lessons about the future management of beautiful and fragile wild waters.
Author | : Linwood W. Moody |
Publisher | : Heimburger House Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Narrow gauge railroads |
ISBN | : 9780911581478 |
Originally published in 1959 this is the story of the two-foot-gauge railroads of Maine, including the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, the Monson, the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington, the Edaville and the Kennebec Central.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760347360 |
This richly illustrated encyclopedia of classic and contemporary railroads features histories of 101 U.S. and Canadian railroads past and present. It is the go-to resource for railfans of all stripes.